Events
Film Screening: After Tiller
Communications, Studio C, Room 150 Communications Bldg University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United Statesthe film explores the issue of late-term abortion in the U.S. in the aftermath of the murder of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, one of the very few doctors to perform this procedure. We will actually have one of the physicians featured in the film, Dr. Shelley Sella, in attendance at the screening […]
FreeMark Anderson "Franz Boas, George Schuyler and Miscegenation: A Chapter in the History of Anthropology, Race/Racism, and the Harlem Renaissance"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMark Anderson Associate Professor of Anthropology, UCSC Mark Anderson is an anthropologist who works on the politics of race and culture, particularly in the Americas. He is currently working on a project tentatively titled Anthropology and Race/Racism: From The Harlem Renaissance to Decolonizing the Discipline, which traces anthropological approaches to race/racism from the 1920s to the 1970s.
Rebecca Hester: "Those against whom society must be defended: Mexican migrants, swine flu, and bioterrorism"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSince 9/11 and in the wake of the anthrax letters, there has been a concern about the "dual use" of biological knowledge and material which could variously be used for vaccine development or for the production of biological weapons of mass destruction. Population mobility and biological mutability have been at the center of this concern. […]
Morris Ratner: "A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust"
University Center, UCSC College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz will present a lecture by UC Hastings College of the Law Professor Morris Ratner titled "A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust," on Monday, April 7, at 7 p.m., at UCSC’s University Center. Professor Morris Ratner successfully prosecuted Holocaust-era private law claims against Swiss, German, Austrian, and French entities that […]
FreeJane McAlevey: "Beating Attack on Workers by Building High Participation Unions"
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJane McAlevey's first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), published by Verso Press, was named the "most valuable book of 2012" by The Nation Magazine. She has served as Executive Director and Chief Negotiator for SEIU Nevada, as National Deputy Director for Strategic Campaigns of the Healthcare Division for SEIU, and she was the Campaign Director of the one of […]
FreeNed Block: "Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious"
Humanities 2, Room 259There are reliably reproducible strong brain activations that have little or no reportability and for that reason could be said to be unconscious, but can become reportable with a shift of attention and do not have many of the signature properties of unconscious states. This lecture discusses whether these states might be phenomenally conscious in […]
FreeVENUE CHANGED Rebecca Jo Plant: "Child Soldiers: Militarism and American Youth"
Abbey Coffee ShopProf.Rebecca Jo Plant will be presenting on Child Soldiers: Militarism and American Youth, a book project that she and her collaborator, Frances M. Clarke of the University of Sydney, have undertaken. The project traces debates over the use of child soldiers and the relationship between youth and militarism over two centuries in order to illuminate […]
Shakespeare to Go!
2nd Stage, Theater Arts Performing Arts, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for the final dress rehearsal of Shakespeare to Go! This year's performance is "Hamlet," directed by Kimberly Jannarone. The final dress rehearsal will be on Friday, March 21st at 4pm in the Theater Art's Second Stage. The performance is approximately 1 hour. Doors will open at 3:45pm.
FreeMisfit Horror Film Series: Freaks
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror: A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. March 16th - Freaks (1932, dir. Tod Browning) - a Pre-Code horror flick that still has the capacity to haunt and creep you out The granddaddy of all the misfit horror […]
WHAT WOULD ATTICUS DO?
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryJoin Literature professors Christopher Chen and Micah Perks, poet Danusha Lameris, and attorney Ben Rice on Saturday, March 15, for a benefit screening of To Kill A Mockingbird. Following the movie, Chen, Perks, Lameris and Rice will take part in a panel discussion entitled "Harper Lee's Book and How it Changed My Life and The World." This event, in support of The […]